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UN Sees a Path to Peace in Congo's Kasai Region

Lisa Schlein

   GENEVA - A team of U.N. experts reports a decrease in violence in the
   Democratic Republic of Congo's Kasai region and they say a change in
   governing authorities may present an opening for peace and
   reconciliation in the troubled region. The team has presented a report
   Wednesday on the current situation in Kasai to the U.N. Human Rights
   Council.

   The chairman of the team of experts, Senegalese lawyer Bacre Ndiaye,
   says Kasai remains riven with violence and gross violations of human
   rights. But he says newly elected Congolese authorities are committed
   to punishing serious crimes. And this, he says, gives hope that
   conditions are in place to begin the fight against impunity and to
   consider community reconciliation.

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